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Fabrice Renault
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Why Matt ? It's a bit like watching different tv series. You read one or 2 chapters of one book, then one of the other. Or you just can read one at home, and the other in the public transports...
Currently, I am reading A bridge of years by Robert Charles Wilson, and just finished 1Q84 (first book) by Haruki Murakami.
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Wallace Sellars
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E. C. Segar's POPEYE Volume 1: "I Yam What I Yam!"
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John C. Harrison
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Methuselah's Children by Robert A. Heinlein
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Andrew Hess
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Just finished 11/23/63.
First King book I've read in a while, for just the reason you say up-thread: he doesn't know how to end a novel.
I won't give anything away, but this one is too well padded, like most of his other later books. Liked the premise, but very much King-light.
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David Ferguson
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How Many Miles to Babylon? - Jennifer Johnston
A very touching book about World War I. So good, I read it in one sitting. Didn't know the writer despite her being Irish, her work being around for years (she's just turned 82) and being well regarded and winning numerous awards. It is on the English syllabus for the Leaving Cert (an exam Irish people sit to qualify for college) which my sister is sitting next year and so she had the book.
I'll have to look for more of her stuff.
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Flavio Sapha
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ELFQUEST ARCHIVES VOL.4
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Derek Cavin
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Awesome. Love Elfquest growing up. Great stories and wonderful art.
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Flavio Sapha
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Just finished it! What a great comic book! The Pinis are one hell of a
storytelling team!
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Brad Brickley
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I'm reading Mark Mazower's Hitler's Empire: How the Nazi's Ruled Europe. It's a great read on the history of Germany's plans, or lack there of, for ruling the conquered territories.
The Nazi's had plans to conquer, but not a lot of details on how to rule. This book explores how things evolved as more and more territory is taken over and the terrible results that happened after to the people in those areas, especially the horrible fates of the Jews and Slavs.
Even 70+ years later it boggles the mind that humans could treat other humans so badly. The author has a nice writing style that makes the reading easy for such a dense and complicated tale.
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Flavio Sapha
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In HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, Max Von Sydow has some
memorable dialogue :
"You missed a very dull TV show on Auschwitz. More gruesome film
clips, and more puzzled intellectuals declaring their mystification over
the systematic murder of millions. The reason they can never answer
the question "How could it possibly happen?" is that it's the wrong
question. Given what people are, the question is "Why doesn't it
happen more often?"
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Michael Arndt
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Rereading Showcase Presents: Challengers of the Unknown vol.1. Saw that Challengers of the Unknown Omnibus by Jack Kirby comes out in June.
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Emery Calame
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I am reading the Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi, and Jheghaala by Steven Brust
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